Chapter 60 Denied

"Boo, you're no fun." Kele said sulkily when she saw that Tommy had no intention to respond, "Fine I'll tell you."

"There are two things I need to inform you of," Kele began. "First since you have successfully killed the five leaders and damaged their organizations, far quicker than expected I might add, Chel wants to meet and she also plans to bring two friends if it's ok with you."

"Who are these friends?" Tommy asked.

"A friend." Kele replied, causing Tommy to frown.

"If these 'friends' don't want to be identified I suggest they stay away then." Tommy replied simply before continuing with his breakfast.

Kele gaped at Tommy in shock as she wasn't expecting him to refuse and was about to try arguing the point when Merno cut her off.

"Your misunderstanding Kele." 

"What?" Kele asked.

Merno looked at Tommy for permission and saw he gave her a quick nod to which she smiled before turning back to Kele.

"Tommy is not saying he is not willing to meet your 'friends', they can come if they want, what he said, he means literally, if your friends come to meet him their identity will become known to him even if they wear a shroud like that Chel." Merino explained before turning to Tommy and asking. "I'm assuming you know who that Chel is."

"Princess Chelna Rosk." Tommy replied simply.

Merino and the twins showed surprised expressions while Kele and Rizi appeared shocked before giving wary looks as Kele asked, "How do you know that?"

"His skill." Merino replied simply.

"His skill?" Kele asked in surprise.

"Tommy has the identification skill." Merino explained. "Only it doesn't just identify items related to profession like alchemy or mining, but everything."

"Everything?" Jue asked in surprise.

"Yes." Tommy replied as he had finished his food.

"Delicious as always, thank you." Tommy said to Merno who smiled brightly.

"My identification skill allows me to identify anything and anyone while also giving some basic personal information." Tommy explained.

"What sort of information?" Kele asked.

Tommy however just kept quiet and smiled since he was not going to reveal anymore about his skill just yet.

He also noticed that Merno didn't say anything even when Kele looked at her for answers, making him smile.

"Fine." Kele said with a sigh. "The friends I mentioned are Queen Tinen Etria and Tirma Narkun."

"THE QUEEN?" The four other women all shouted in shock while Tommy raised an eyebrow with interest.

(Etria?)

"Why would the queen wish to meet with me?" Tommy asked before adding as an afterthought. "Also why is her surname nor Rosk if she is married to the king?"

"You really don't know anything about the nation do you." Rizi sighed before she began to explain.

"Queen Tinen is the younger sister of the current emperor Movim Etria which means she was the daughter of the former emperor. Because her position was higher than King Gladors when they married and even is to this day, she gets to keep her imperial surname."

"Why would she agree to marry someone lower than her?" Tommy asked with confusion. "Does she love him that much?"

At hearing this the women in the bar all burst into laughter making Tommy frown again.

It took a moment for Kele to calm down before saying, "Hardly, she resents King Glador as he asked the former emperor for her hand in marriage as a reward in the past just to grow his own position and marry into the imperial family."

"While this is nor openly advertised it is common knowledge to the citizens of the Kingdom of Rosk and the surrounding lands."

"As for why she is coming to see you, that relates to the second thing I'm here to inform you of."

"Go on." Tommy said with interest.

"She is coming to negotiate a deal with you to spare the lives of Countess Evol Glurmav and her daughter Ista." Kele answered.

"Who?" Tommy asked, surprising the women.

"You seriously don't know?" Kele asked.

"I don't recall ever meeting anyone of those names." Tommy replied.

"Apparently you encountered Ista at Suthuld's personal servant emporium when you where about to torture….."

"Denied." Tommy replied before Kele could finish.

"But..." Kele tried but again was interrupted.

"While I have no beef with Countess Evol and will not touch her if she stays out of my way, her daughter Ista needs to pay for ruining my experiment and reporting me to the city guards." 

"Experiment?" Jue and Tue asked with interest.

"I was planning to kill Kir-kin Suthuld with hydra blood before that spoiled brat ruined my plans, now she will be my test subject as I wish to witness the effectiveness." Tommy replied.

Kele and Rizi gulped when they heard this while Merno shook her head muttering "Silly girl."

Jue and Tue however had excited looks on their faces as Tue asked, "Can we observe the experiment please."

"Yes let us please Tommy please." Jue asked along with her sister.

Kele and Rizi looked at the two twins with surprise and concern.

"That depends on the situation." Tommy replied. "If I can arrange it that way then yes, however if it's not possible you will have to wait until I get another opportunity."

"Yay." Both twins cheered happily before hugging an arm each between their ample breasts.

Tommy flinched slightly and was about to react out of instinct and attack the twins when he noticed that he was not feeling repulsed in any way from their touch.

(What?")

((Wow))

Tommy took a moment to gather his thoughts before saying, "Let go."

The twins quickly released him as all the women looked at him strangely as his voice had been colder than usual.

Tommy took some deep breaths to gather himself and attempt to calm down.

"Tommy, are you ok?" Merno asked.

Tommy looked at the twins before saying, "Don't touch me so casually, the last person to do that now lies dead in an alley."

The twins gulped when they heard this while Kele and Rizi's faces showed realization.

"So it's not only men you hate touching you?" Kele asked.

"No, in fact it's women also, in fact while I might just maim a man who does it like the guard at the adventurer's guild, women who touch me normally end up dead like the women yesterday." Tommy answered, making all the women shiver slightly.

"Why are the twins fine then?" Kele asked cautiously.

Tommy thought for a moment before replying, "If I had to guess it's because I like their company." 

The twins both showed beautiful smiles when he said this.

"You shook my hand in the past though." Kele asked.

"That was a different situation, I initiated the handshake because I respect your strength." Tommy explained. "Until now I would only put up with people touching me if I initiated the touch and I respected their strength, normally I would attack as soon as touch, it took a lot of holding back on my part back at the guild when that guard grabbed my arm."

"You call slicing his arm off holding back?" Rizi asked.

"Yes, I gave him a chance to remove it out of respect for the help you and Kele provided me, that's more than what most people get." Tommy answered.

"I was curious why your treatment towards our handshake and the guard grabbing your shoulder was so vastly different to the extreme." Kele said.

"Does your aversion to people touching you have something to do with all the scars on your back?" Tue asked with obvious concern.

Tommy looked towards her and seeing the looks of concern and worry on the faces of both Jue and Tue helped him to calm down some more.

 "No." Tommy answered while shaking his head. "Those scars are from my work."

"I see." Jue said before asking. "Have you ever considered fixing them?"

"How? Tommy asked curiously.

"Magic of course." Tue replied with a smile, "It's quite simple for a powerful magic user to heal damaged skin like those scars and burns on your back." 

Tommy gaped in shock at Tue making the latter giggle.

((Please please please.))

"Is it… is it." Tommy stammered, surprising the women as they had never seen him so shook up before.

"Is it what?" Tue asked kindly.

"Is it possible to fix body parts with magic?" Tommy asked nervously.

(please please please)

((Please Please Please))

"Yes." Tue replied with a smile making Tommy collapse in his chair.

((OH HELL YEAH.))

"Of course the nature and cause of the injury affect the difficulty of healing them, for example fixing a broken bone is easy, however reattaching or regrowing a broken limb is much harder and the difficulty varies depending on the body part in question." Kele started to explain since she was the most powerful magic user in the city.

"Of course body parts that have been lost because of a curse are even harder to mend and sometimes impossible."

"Why? Which body part are you asking about? I can see you have all the essentials." 

"Mumble mumble." Tommy mumbled.

"Pardon?" Kele asked as all the women paid attention.

"My mumble." Tommy mumbled again though slightly louder

"Sorry, I still didn't catch that." Kele replied as the women's interest grew.